Today at Microsoft?s Gamefest game developers conference in Seattle, the company will show off in its keynote address a different way to create console games that, if all the elements come together, will enable smaller developers, students and even game enthusiasts an easy and cheap way to make new games for its console. The software tools for this effort is being called XNA Game Studio Express and at a pre-Gamefest event Sunday night, FiringSquad heard more about this newly announced effort and saw some examples of what is possible with these new tools.

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